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"But that was a bluff. I'm just as big a fool as I ever was about it. If you want to walk over me, go ahead; if you want to oh, rats! But I'll tell you; if you'll come away with me I'll drop all of this. I'll leave that tin-horn doctor where he is, and let him make what he can out of his claim." "I couldn't marry you, Jerry; it's impossible to think of that," she told him gently.
His lungs filled and his lips straightened. But he grinned presently, in an effort to bring cheer into the cabin, reaching into a pocket and bringing out the money he had recovered for Levins. "There are nearly a thousand dollars here. Two tin-horn gamblers tried to take it from Clay, but I headed them off. Tell Clay " Mrs.
"There's so much of this desert unsurveyed," he said, "that no man can tell whether he's just inside or just outside of Purgatory." "So you come to me to find out?" Culver demanded somewhat shortly. "Do you tin-horn miners think that's all this office is for?" "Well, in my instance, I had to come to some wiser spirit than myself to get my bearings," answered Van drawlingly. "You can see that."
"Hennage" he said, "do you know I think I should grow to like you? By George, I think I should. If you should ever come to Los Angeles, look me up," and he presented the gambler with his card. Mr. Hennage smiled, tore the card into little bits and dropped them to the floor. "Do I look like a tin-horn?" he queried. A momentary frown crossed Carey's face; then he, too, smiled.
"Not a farmer, storekeeper or stock-buyer," Shorty mentally sized him up, "Looks more like a hickory lawyer, herb-doctor or tin-horn gambler. What's he doin' in this caboose? Up to some devilment, no doubt. He'll bear watchin'." And Shorty gave another snore.
Are your eye-teeth peeled, young man?" "My eye-teeth?" I repeated. "I hope so, madam. Are eye-teeth necessary in Benton?" "Peeled, and with hair on 'em, young man," she assured. "I guess you're a pilgrim, ain't you? I see a leetle green in your eye. No, you ain't a tin-horn. You're some mother's boy, jest gettin' away from the trough. My sakes! Sick, too, eh? Weak lungs, ain't it?
"A man who took big chances risks." "Not Steve," I smiled at her earnestness. "Steve was a piker always a tin-horn gambler. Hid away from the police instead of doing business with them. Take a chance? Not Steve." Worth had left the telephone and was leaning over her shoulder to read what she had typed.
The crowd at the race track upon the opening afternoon of the fair was beginning to assume colossal proportions colossal, that is to say, for San Lorenzo. Beneath the grand stand, where the pools are always sold, the motley throng surged thickest. Jew and gentile, greaser and dude, tin-horn gamblers and tenderfeet, hayseeds and merchants, jostled each other good humouredly.
So we started drivin’ north, an’ they jumped us." "Who?" "Yankees—th’ brand what probably set at home an’ let others do th’ real fightin’—ready to come in an’ take over once th’ shootin’ was done with. They grabbed th’ herd. Shot Will Bachus when he stood up to ’em, an’ made it all legal ’cause they had a tin-horn deputy ridin’ with ’em. Well, we got him anyway an’ two or three of th’ others.
Robert has to shoot off something he thinks is humorous. "When you all get to Nebo," says he, "perhaps the old mountain will be a little less lonely." "And if anybody offers to give you a steer down there," says I, "don't refuse. It might be just tin-horn advice, but then again he might mean a long-horn beef." As usual Henry is the only gloom in the party. He shakes his head.
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